The Strand Townsville

I dont know why it is called the Strand but it is the the part that runs alongside of the waterfront. Years ago when we were living here and I used to work weekends at Jezzine barracks, it was the accepted (expected) form that we would run down the Strand and back again. Jezzine Barracks being at the very end of the Strand. We were to head to the "sugar bowl" and turn at the swimming pool, supposed to be 5 kms, felt a lot longer than that. I dont think i ever made it to the end as I used to turn around when most people were coming back and just tag on the end.

Anyway, that is a memory, the Strand was pretty good and it was nice to run/walk along the edge of the sea. Over the years, lots of time and money has been spend on the Strand and there is sports equipment along the way, small cafes, ice cream places and plenty of places to just sit and look at the sea or anything else that takes one's fancy.

We were going to have a coffee but the place we headed to was a sit down table service, as Warren had to make a pit stop on the way, I went ahead and was shown to a table. We didnt want a full blown meal so opted for an entree each, folded up the menu and waited and waited. Warren said to me that maybe we need to go up and order which he started to do when he was told that they would come to the table to tak our order. We waited and waited again, I had decided that I was walking in two minutes, they had 30 secs to spare when someone came past for our drinks order, he was given our meal order as well. Not happy with the service so far, and the food wasnt that nice either.

Luckily our walk along the strand was nice.